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By Jane Laughton. Windgather Press 2008.
In the late medieval period, Chester was the most important place in north-western England, serving as administrative centre of the county palatine and as the regional capital. The city was not large but was further enhanced by its role as ecclesiastical capital and garrison town. Chester’s location ensured close links with Wales and Ireland. This study of Chester is based on a wide range of sources, written and archaeological, and contains much that is new. It reveals a city with its own distinctive character but one which shared the experiences of towns throughout medieval England. Particular use is made of the court rolls, records that have the potential to illuminate social relationships at the neighbourhood level. The book therefore makes an importnat contribution to the study of medieval urban history. The picture that emerges is of a lively community that responded to social and economic change with enthusiasm and enterprise.

A chance find of Roman pottery in a garden at Irby, Wirral, in the 1940s led in 1987 to the discovery of an important and long-lived settlement site by archaeologists from National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (now National Museums Liverpool). Excavating from 1987 to 1996 in a series of suburban gardens, they found evidence for a long sequence of occupation from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Romano-British, early medieval and later medieval periods. This report presents the evidence of the structures, artefacts and plant remains from this long-lived settlement. Key discoveries include regionally important buildings from the middle Bronze Age and from the Viking period, as well as extensive Roman and late medieval occupation, which contributes significantly to our understanding of settlement and economy in Wirral and the wider region during these periods.
This report can be bought from the National Museums Liverpool online bookshop( http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/onlineshop/product-list.aspx?cat=22) for GBP 16 plus p&p or from Amazon.

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This new book by Steve Harding, Mark Jobling and Turi King sets out the results of the first part of a genetic survey of northern England ? embracing the Wirral and west Lancashire ? and explains the basis behind the DNA method to probe ancestry.

The book is introduced with a foreword by UK/BBC historian and broadcaster Michael Wood, after which the authors set out to show, with the help of full colour illustrations and in plain language, what DNA is and how DNA methods can be used to probe both individual and population ancestry.

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